On May 24, 5:02=A0pm, J <Jvisi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Breaking News!!! =A0Fag-America attacks God!
>
> http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/bombing/americabombedwbc.html
>
> August 20, 1995 - The Night America Bombed Westboro Baptist Church With
An=
> IED (Improvised Explosive Device) In A Cowardly Move To Stop WBC's
Anti-Ga=
y
> Gospel Preaching - Thereby Bringing Down The Unmitigated And
Irreversible
> Wrath Of God Upon This Evil Nation, Manifesting Itself In The Daily
Bloody=
> IED-Deaths Of American Soldiers In Iraq And Other Places. (See
Do***entati=
on
> below).
> "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you."
> (Jer. 15:14b)
> Thank God for the bombing of WBC!
> Luke 6:22,23.
>
> Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) had been faithfully preaching for four
years=
> when a local whore stepped forward to run for District Attorney on a
platf=
orm
> that she would shut down our ministry. She was elected and immediately
beg=
an
> filing criminal charges against our members until the number of charges
fi=
led
> by local authorities exceeded five hundred. By August 20 we had just
> completed four weeks of back-to-back trials in Em****ia, Kansas, where
venu=
e
> had been changed to. The local authorities in Topeka ? from the police
to =
the
> prosecutors, to the elected and non-elected officials in every branch
and
> every level of city, county and state government ? were encouraging
crimes=
> and malicious prosecutions against members of WBC.
>
> They were working hand-in-hand to establish a zeitgeist so that every
piec=
e
> of filthy s*** was encouraged to come to the pickets and attack us
physica=
lly
> and verbally, being assured of three things:
>
> =A0 =A01. There would be NO consequences to them criminally.
> =A0 =A02. One or more members of WBC would be prosecuted.
> =A0 =A03. There was a sup****t group in town called Concerned Citizens of
T=
opeka
> established to fight against the religious ministry and message of WBC
by
> providing legal and financial sup****t to anyone who attacked or accused
us=
..
> That group would provide an attorney for the attacker to help navigate
the=
> process of prosecuting WBC members ? pro bono!
>
> Crimes against WBC members were a regular (almost daily) occurrence. The
> local newspaper was printing daily stories, editorials, and letters to
the=
> editor to demonize, vilify and marginalize WBC and her little flock of
> slaughter.
>
> In spite of and through it all, these faithful souls hit the streets
every=
> day ?going forth and weeping, bearing precious seed,? (Ps. 126:6),
knowing=
> the promises of God to sustain us and keep us were good and faithful
> promises.
>
> Against this backdrop, it was after 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 20,
1995,=
> when this story unfolded. I had just put my sleeping 4-day-old baby into
h=
is
> bassinette. He was moderately jaundiced and was therefore sleeping hard
an=
d
> having difficulty waking up even to eat. I went down the hall to check
on =
the
> other seven children, six of whom were having a sleepover on the floor
of
> their oldest brother?s bedroom in the opposite corner of the second
floor.=
> Little Grace was sleeping in the nursery with a wave machine going to
bloc=
k
> out noise. I then went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. Suddenly a
ver=
y
> loud explosion rocked the house; the window to my right rattled. I ran
dow=
n
> the hall toward my bedroom and met my husband Brent, who was standing
over=
> the baby. He described the blast as having caused a heavy walnut wall
hang=
ing
> to fly out at the bottom at a 45 degree angle and drop back against the
wa=
ll
> just over the baby.
>
> I called the police department and spoke with Lt. Bud Brooks. He assured
m=
e
> that they had heard about a blast, but that it was NOT at our house, but
a=
> mile away at 21st & Gage. I hung up and told Brent what he said. Brent
was=
> looking out the window and pointed to a large plume of smoke that was
> drifting away immediately North of our driveway. Our bedroom was above
the=
> driveway on the second floor. The smoke began drifting to the west.
>
> I called back to the police department and again spoke with Lt. Brooks.
I
> asked how we could have a plume of smoke drifting away from our house if
t=
he
> explosion was at 21st & Gage. I was again assured that no explosion was
cl=
ose
> to our house. We went down the hall and checked the other children, then
> grabbed some flashlights and went outside. We noticed that our
12-passenge=
r
> van light was on. It shortly went off, as though someone had exited the
va=
n
> (the way a dome light will stay on a period and then shut off
automaticall=
y).
> We were met by my dear friend and brother Tim, who had heard the blast
and=
> come out with his own flashlight. Tim lives two doors north of our house
a=
nd
> had looked out his bedroom window to see the same plume of smoke
drifting
> away from our driveway and had come to investigate. Other neighbors to
the=
> east and west and in the next block were out in the dark looking to see
wh=
at
> the blast was about. Shortly Tim and Brent found the place where the IED
h=
ad
> exploded. The smell of burned blast powder was strong. There was a
series =
of
> holes in the stockade fence to the north of the driveway and to the
south =
of
> the fence. The blast had been mostly absorbed by the 12-passenger van.
The=
> van had small holes and ripple marks, with a lot of paint missing. The
cem=
ent
> was black with burn marks. The blast had rocked the van with such force
it=
> caused the dome light to come on.
>
> I called Lt. Brooks for the third time and told him about the blast
site. =
He
> sounded very distressed, knowing the implications of the information I
was=
> giving him. He knew this was a hate crime, and he felt the pressure to
cov=
er
> the facts immediately. He said he would send an officer out.
>
> The officer arrived shortly after my call to Lt. Brooks. Typical of the
> Topeka Police Department staff, he had a hostile attitude, and tromped
> through the crime scene like an untrained oaf. I questioned whether he
sho=
uld
> be doing so, and he responded with a grunt. Knowing we had to engage in
se=
lf-
> help ? as usual ? we did our own search. In the darkness we found many
lar=
ge
> and small pieces of orange plastic. After pointing out this evidence to
th=
e
> uncaring officer, he took the evidence and left. Not a word of concern
or =
any
> assurance the criminal would be found.
>
> Monday morning we were up early; a review of the yards for two houses to
t=
he
> north and across the street to the west turned up more large and small
pie=
ces
> of the orange plastic, some as far away as a football field. We also
found=
> the wall hanging had been blown off the wall on the first floor in the
din=
ing
> room that was next to the driveway. Television and radio news re****ted
tha=
t
> the blast did not target WBC, and that other explosions were re****ted
Sund=
ay
> night as well.
>
> The next several days we were interviewed and questioned endlessly by
the
> local Fire Marshall. There were questions put to us suggesting we might
be=
> responsible for the bomb. All efforts were directed at making us appear
> culpable. So, the church offered a $5,000 reward for information leading
t=
o
> the truth. By Wednesday we had solid information and proof about who had
d=
one
> it; there were three men involved.
>
> Brent and I were called down to the Fire Marshall?s office, where we
dragg=
ed
> ourselves with baby Gabriel, tired and weary. I sat answering questions
un=
til
> it dawned on me that those Fire Department officials and ATF officers
were=
> NOT investigating the bombing, but instead focusing on my brother Tim
and
> suggesting that his proactive efforts may somehow be improper. (Tim,
with
> experience and training in such matters, had collected physical evidence
a=
nd
> questioned possible witnesses ? all of which pointed to the obvious fact
t=
hat
> WBC was the target and the other explosions were ?tests? performed in
safe=
> areas. He did so because no such effort was being made by any law
enforcem=
ent
> agency at any level of government.) Their language was vague and
unnerving=
,
> clearly calculated to trouble us and leave us without relief. They also
ma=
de
> sounds suggesting the offer of a reward was improper (though it is a
commo=
n
> technique in crime-solving).
>
> In my post-partum fog, I detected threats in their questions. My husband
a=
nd
> I began to realize what was going on at about the same time. I told them
t=
hat
> we were done with them, because it was bad enough that they focused
their
> investigation on pretending we had done wrong, and clearly they were not
> going to give us any help. Their bizarre effort to find wrongdoing in
our
> actions was the final straw. Brent made it clear their actions were,
> predictably, wrong, and we got up and left.
>
> See the newspaper articles and transcript for additional information and
> facts, to complete this story. It?s a testimony to the outrageous abuse
of=
> power that the government of Topeka has demonstrated toward WBC since
the
> first day we held up a picket sign on the street. We have turned the
other=
> cheek, ducking and dodging around them, by grace, growing stronger and
mor=
e
> courageous. Their cowardly acts were always meant to stop us; God used
the=
m
> to strengthen us. Every player in this disgraceful event will stand
before=
> God on the Judgment Day and account, in the minutest detail, for his or
he=
r
> role. It will be a great day of reckoning. Recompense is already
unfolding=
at
> the hands of the Iraqi insurgents. It was not our place to seek revenge,
b=
ut
> rather to step aside ? keep ourselves focused and on message ? and let
God=
> deal with the dastardly deeds of law enforcement, prosecutors, media,
the
> fire marshal, and others who had a hand in this most unsavory affair.
>
> This event will go down in eternity as evidence of the vicious hate of
thi=
s
> community toward the Saints of God. It is a manifestation of their years
o=
f
> hostility and persecution, and proof positive that Topeka is Satan?s
seat.=
It
> symbolizes the reaction of this entire nation to our street ministry of
ho=
pe,
> grace and love. We warned this nation for over a decade that if they did
n=
ot
> repent, and stop institutionalizing the sin of sodomy in every aspect of
> society, God would punish them. They responded by attacking us with an
IED=
,
> in the most calloused fa****on. The response of government at every level
?=
> after we put every agency on notice up to and including the President of
t=
he
> United States ? captured the hatred of this nation toward the messengers
o=
f
> God. (Can you imagine what would have happened if it had been a black
chur=
ch,
> or a synagogue, or a mosque? The government knows how to deal with
church
> bombings). It is perfectly fitting for a just God to avenge his little
Sai=
nts
> by using IEDs ? something unheard of in this generation until a few
months=
> ago ? to destroy the fruit of America.
>
> "Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer
frui=
t.
> And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer
fruit.
> Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I
wi=
ll
> not again pass by them any more. And the songs of the temple shall be
> howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead
bodies =
in
> every place; they shall cast them forth with silence." Amos 8:1-3.
>
> This record was given by your faithful servant ****rley Phelps-Roper.
http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/bombing/americabombedwbc.html
You cite the Reverend Phelps as some kind of self proclaimed holy
authority? A church whose claim to fame is the promotion of hate?
(Notice the name of the Web site) And I "love" the way your post links
religious babble with the secular laws of the Constitution.
Phelps church calls itself Baptist. I call the church Lubytarian.
Just as at Luby's Cafeteria, you stroll through the Bible selecting
only the passages that you believe justifies the hateful actions of
Phelp's church.
Way to Go! Cloak your hatred with the imagined authority of
religion! Gott Mit Uns!
RO
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